Tutorials

This section provides a set of use cases showing the flexibility of the framework implemented by NegMAS and its applicability to a variety of problems.

• What is SCM and SCML?
• A (not very) brief introduction to NegMAS
• A brief introduction to SCM
  • The Oneshot game (OneShot)
  • The Full game (Standard/Collusion Tracks)
• Run a session of the SCML world (2021)
• Running a tournament
• Running a One-Shot tournament
• Developing an agent for SCML2021 (OneShot)
  • Building your own agent
  • OneShotAgent
  • A better greedy agent
  • Thinking about other negotiations
  • Learning over time
  • More General Simple Agent (advanced)
  • OneShotSyncAgent
  • SingleAgreementOneShotAgent
  • Using Independent Negotiators
  • Comparing all agents
  • Running SCML2020 agents (advanced)
• Developing an agent for SCML2021 (Std/Collusion)
  • Do Nothing Agent
  • Agent Anatomy
  • Creating our own negotiation control strategy
  • Changing the negotiation strategy
  • Overriding an agent directly
  • An agent from scratch
  • A competition
  • Running OneShot agents (advanced)
• Running Controlled Experiments
  • Levels of control
  • Using generate():
  • Controlling agent allocation to factories
  • Controlling construction paramteres
  • Controlling other aspects of the simulation
  • Controlling Profiles
  • Controlling exogenous contracts
• Logging and Statistics
  • Types of Logs
  • Primer on logging in negmas
  • Controlling logging
• Getting infromation about a simulation
  • World Information
  • Contracts and Negotiations
• Ideas for developing your agent (Standard)
  • Trading Strategy
  • Negotiation Manager
  • Negotiation Algorithm
  • Production Strategy
• Ideas for developing you agent (OneShot)
  • IDEA 10: Learn the acceptance strategy of your partners
  • IDEA 11: Predict future market conditions
• Final Remarks